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Events :C/P
1056 After a sudden illness a few days previous, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1218 Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
1314 King Hεkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1795 War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connaught.
1803 Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1813 At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastiαn), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1864 During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarσw.
1920 The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1936 Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1949 The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1957 The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1962 Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1963 Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1980 After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
1980 Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
1982 Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
1986 Aeromιxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1996 Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
1999 The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
End of C/P.
Events :C/P
1056 After a sudden illness a few days previous, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1218 Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
1314 King Hεkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1795 War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connaught.
1803 Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1813 At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastiαn), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1864 During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarσw.
1920 The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1936 Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1949 The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1957 The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1962 Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1963 Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
1965 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1980 After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
1980 Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
1982 Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
1986 Aeromιxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1996 Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
1999 The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2005 A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
End of C/P.